A2 crash in Swale on 15 June 2016 at 17:00 involving a Ford Focus
Four vehicles, including a Ford Focus and a Hyundai i30, were involved in a crash on the A2 in Swale at 17:00 on Wednesday 15 June 2016. The male driver of the Ford Focus and the 43-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i30 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jun 2016
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31141, longitude 0.87433, in the ME13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Faversham. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Ann's, Swale, ME13 7PZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460078464
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2 in Swale, 5 June 1991
1 m awayRef 199146BH42431
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Swale, 30 December 2002
1 m awayRef 200246SW69188
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A2 in Swale, 21 June 2022
1 m awayRef 2022461203043
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2 in Swale, 30 April 2007
9 m awayRef 2007460140906
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A2 in Swale, 17 November 2006
9 m awayRef 2006460134021
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Swale, 14 September 2000
9 m awayRef 200046SW29094
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i30)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2016460078464 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 2016.